Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 246
Release Date: November 1983
Highlights
- Watcher opens the story talking about the dreams of people, foreshadowing the story
- Spider-Man comes to Felicia in the hospital, bringing her Black Cat costume for a night out in the city
- Black Cat and Spider-Man are paid $500,000.00 for helping steal a set of foreign documents
- Spider-Man reveals himself to Black Cat, showing that he's really Cary Grant
- Spider-Man antagonizes J. Jonah Jameson, saying that the Daily Bugle wouldn't even exist if it weren't for him giving them news to write about
- J. Jonah Jameson beats the tar out of Spider-Man until he concedes that The Bugle, and free press give more to the city than he, Spider-Man, ever could
- The entire Bugle staff cheers as Jonah knocks Spider-Man out, all while Peter Parker takes the photos
- Mary Jane Watson is headed for a show with a date, only to find it's her name on the marquee advertising her story as a show coming soon
- People are waiting in line six months in advance to get tickets
- Mary Jane decides to play herself in the play, only to be approached by her sister, saddled with two kids, reminding her not to forget to have a role for her since acting is what she always wanted to do
- Reference is made to The Avengers 236. and 237
- Spider-Man sees J. Jonah Jameson being by everyone from his rogues gallery, all at once, and swings into action
- Before fighting, Spider-Man throws his small camera, which transformers into a massive 35mm camera with an extended lense and tripod
- J. Jonah Jameson watches in awe as Spider-Man fights everyone despite him being such a jerk to the hero
- Jameson literally kisses Spider-Man's feet, swearing he'll make a public apology for all he's said, which he then does
- Peter Parker wins the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of Jameson kissing his feet
- Dr. Sloan brusts in on the award ceremony and tells Peter the university is granting him an automatic doctorate degree because the experiment he left behind when quitting school is curing "everything"
- Spider-Man is given the key to the city, and multiple heroes are there to see it happen
- Spider-Man is made a full fledged Avenger, but Thing tells Iron Man to forget it because they want him in the Fantastic Four
- Spider-Man provides a compromise that he'll be an Avenger Monday through Wednesday, and part of the Fantastic Four Thursday through Saturday, taking Sunday for himself
- All of the above, if you haven't caught on, were the daydreams of all those involved
- After being jarred from his daydream, Spider-Man sees a skinny "nerd" being bullied by some kids who take his glasses, and knock his books on the ground
- Spider-Man scares the bullies off, gives the kid some advice to enjoy reading, but not forget about the real world
- The kid, seeing Spider-Man goes into his own daydream of being Spider-Man
- The story is its own fun "What If"
- None
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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